Rain this morning for the Aquino inauguration.
Lolo's watching happily on TV.
There's a "no fly" zone over the ceremony...
No, he's not paranoid, but he's been shot before...
alas, in a land of flamboyant leaders, he suffers a "charisma" deficit...(in English, he's a bit of a nerd...he even sponsors a blog). But this works for him: he appears serious.
Oh yes: His new "nickname" is not Noynoy, but P-Noy (pronounced Pinoy).
and don't forget to buy a booblehead doll of him to place on the dashboard of your car:
A new era of "clean" government?
The fact that extrajudicial killings against two reporters, the murder on a whistle blower in the Ampatuan massacres, and an attack on a priest activist in the last week suggest he will have a lot of corruption to clear up...
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As for local news: According to our cook, the new mayor is holding a party for all, with lechon...
We are hoping that the ex mayor will get his day in court,...
(rumors of missing city funds going to encourage court delays are rampant, but unsubstantiated rumors).
He was indicted for getting hit men to scare off a rival, and the hitmen killed the rival's two sons and our nephew, who was standing next to them.
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But there is good news: Erap the "testtube" caribao.
Photo from the PCC shows ‘Erap’ with a caretaker at the Philippine Carabao Center’s bull farm in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija.
Erap will be used for artificial insemination of female caribaos, to improve the local stock.
Fewer and fewer waterbuffalos are used to plow, replaced with hand tractors (large rototillers) in most farms. (we have two caribaos for our vegetable farm, but the work in tilling rice fields is easier using a handplow).
But they are now being bred to produce milk, to replace imported milk.
and yes, we drink carabao milk ...it's higher in fat than cow's milk, but delicious.
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